| The Shrouded Isle | |
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| Developer(s) | Kitfox Games |
| Publisher(s) | Kitfox Games |
| Composer(s) | François-Xavier Bilodeau |
| Engine | Unity [1] |
| Platform(s) | macOS Microsoft Windows Nintendo Switch |
| Release | macOS, Windows 4 August 2017 Nintendo Switch 17 January 2019 |
| Genre(s) | Management simulation |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
The Shrouded Isle is a management simulation video game developed and published by Kitfox Games.
The Shrouded Isle is a Lovecraftian-themed management simulation video game, in which the player is placed in charge of a sacrificial village cult that worships a god who intends to bring about an apocalypse in three years. [2] [3] The player is in charge of five families that occupy the village; their personalities, habits, and vices are procedurally generated. [3] [4]
The Shrouded Isle was developed by Kitfox Games. [5] It is the third product from the four-person independent video game development studio. [6] It is based on The Sacrifice, a game the team had created for a game jam in 2015. [5] The Shrouded Isle was announced in October 2016 with a scheduled released date of February 2017, [4] however the game was released a later date of 4 August 2017 for Windows and macOS. [5] The game was subsequently released for Nintendo Switch on 17 January 2019. [7]
The Shrouded Isle received mixed reviews on Metacritic. [8] [9]
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